Archive for August, 2007
I’m Naked! Get the Beer!
CJ August 30th, 2007
Some people will do anything for a nice cool brew…
In the early hours of August 18th at Fish’s Quick Stop in De Soto. Store clerk Vicky Gaines says a masked man walked in and began doing the hula dance.
Police say the plan was for the naked dancer to create a distraction while another man took a case of beer from the store. It didn’t work.
Gaines called police. As the naked man and his accomplice joined a third man in a car, a customer got their license plate number. All three were caught a few days later.
The men, ages 19 to 23, face charges of shoplifting and indecent exposure.
So now you don’t have the beer, you are arrested for indecent exposure AND theft. Redneck heaven!
No Brain No Gain
CJ August 30th, 2007
Courtesy of Yahoo!
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court has awarded 3,000 euros ($4,100) in damages to a man who had to have the top of his skull replaced with plastic because of a faulty hospital fridge.
Doctors removed the top of the man’s head and put it in cold storage while they operated on his brain, the court in the western city of Koblenz said Tuesday.
Because the refrigerator was defective, the section of skull was not kept cool enough and could not be reattached. Doctors replaced the bone with a plastic prosthesis.
The man sought compensation of at least 20,000 euros on the grounds that the prosthesis caused him headaches, affected his balance and made him unduly sensitivity to the weather.
Following consultations with experts, the court found that the operation had caused the man’s discomfort, not the loss of the top of his skull.
Compensation of 3,000 euros was “appropriate and sufficient,” it said.
“The experts consulted by the court concluded the new skull roof was better than the original,” a court spokesman said.
Well one things for sure…he’ll never be caught without a salad bowl!
Twelve Toes and Fingers!
CJ August 30th, 2007
Courtesy of Yahoo!
NEW YORK - Jeshuah Fuller’s parents expected him to be born with extra fingers. The extra toes, though, were a surprise.
Jeshuah, healthy and weighing 7 pounds, was born in Brooklyn on Tuesday with 12 fingers and 12 toes. His rare condition, called polydactylism, is usually genetic.
His dad was born with an extra finger on his left hand. His mom, Quana Morris, said she’d had an ultrasound image taken during her pregnancy and knew the baby would have extra fingers.
“We were counting them on the sonogram,” she told the Daily News.
She didn’t know he would have 12 toes, she said. He’ll have all the extra digits surgically removed in a couple of weeks, his mom said.
I’m Stoopid on YouTube
CJ August 30th, 2007
When you are doing something stupid and illegal…don’t videotape it and show it to the world!
A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of having posted a video of himself on YouTube driving at speeds of more than 140 mph, police said Thursday filmed on the A76 single-carriageway road in southwest Scotland.
The police saw the video and promptly arrested him. So…he was stupid, twice.
“Young men in particular seem to think they are invincible behind the wheel — but the facts tell a different story.” Sergeant Scott McLachlan stated.
Kilt Sex
CJ August 19th, 2007
A woman in Minnesota has been fined for public sex acts and lewd conduct with a man who was wearing a kilt.
Chandra Schaefer, 20, of Fargo, was accused of having sex with Nathan Blair, 24, of Moorhead, Minn., on a car and then near a pine tree in late July.
She was ordered to pay a fine and is on unmonitored probation.
There are just some things people don’t want to see…and, hey…why wasn’t the man fined? I guess seeing some dude’s bum in a kilt why doing it in public is ok?
Nude On A Swiss Glacier
CJ August 19th, 2007
Courtesty of Yahoo! News…
The photo shoot by Spencer Tunick, the New York artist famous for his pictures of nude 
gatherings in public settings worldwide, was designed to draw attention to the effects of global warming on Switzerland’s shrinking glaciers.
“The melting of the glaciers is an indisputable sign of global climate change,” said the environmental group Greenpeace, which co-organized the event.
It said most Swiss glaciers will disappear by 2080 if global warming continues at its current pace.
The event, which followed Tunick’s previous shoots in London, Mexico City and Amsterdam, was designed to minimize any impact on the environment, Greenpeace said.
Temperatures during the shoot hovered around 50 degrees.
Man, talk about shrinkage!! Plus those nipples could probably cut glass!
Woman arrested over body parts in fridge
CJ August 12th, 2007
Courtesy of Yahoo!
Malaysian police have arrested a woman in connection with the murder of a man whose body was chopped into 11 pieces and stuffed into a refrigerator in a posh apartment in the capital.
The remains were discovered in black bin bags when a man who bought the apartment at a bank auction went to clean the unit, which had been vacant for more than three months, the Star newspaper said on Tuesday.
A strong stench led the owner and security guard to the refrigerator, which had been sealed with masking tape.
Newspapers in neighboring Singapore said the victim was believed to be a Singaporean who had been married to the woman and who had been out of touch with his family for nearly two years.
The Straits Times carried a photograph of the woman, described as an air stewardess from Sarawak, being led away by police, a scarf hiding her handcuffed hands.
It quoted unnamed sources as saying police were hunting for the woman’s lover.
Police said they had probably solved the case with the arrest of the woman, The Star newspaper said.
Poland’s oldest parachutist jumps at 84
CJ August 12th, 2007
Babcia is not your ordinary granny, according to her teenaged granddaughter.
For her 84th birthday, she decided to go skydiving! Krystyna Zbyszynska, 84, became Poland’s oldest parachutist when she made her first jump with her daughter-in-law, news channel TVN24 reported Sunday.
Planning another jump? “Yes, the day I turn 100.”
You go, granny!
Why people have sex: It feels good…DUH!
CJ August 12th, 2007
After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers found that young men and women get intimate for mostly the same motivations. It’s more about lust in the body than a love connection in the heart.
College-aged men and women agree on their top reasons for having sex — they were attracted to the person, they wanted to experience physical pleasure and “it feels good,” according to a peer-reviewed study in the August edition of Archives of Sexual Behavior. Twenty of the top 25 reasons given for having sex were the same for men and women.
Expressing love and showing affection were in the top 10 for both men and women, but they did take a back seat to the clear No. 1: “I was attracted to the person.”
Researchers at the University of Texas spent five years and their own money to study the overlooked why behind sex while others were spending their time on the how.
“It’s refuted a lot of gender stereotypes … that men only want sex for the physical pleasure and women want love,” said University of Texas clinical psychology professor Cindy Meston, the study’s co-author. “That’s not what I came up with in my findings.”
Forget thinking that men are from Mars and women from Venus, “the more we look, the more we find similarity,” said Dr. Irwin Goldstein, director of sexual medicine at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego. Goldstein, who wasn’t part of Meston’s study, said the Texas research made a lot of sense and adds to growing evidence that the vaunted differences in the genders may only be among people with sexual problems.
Meston and colleague David Buss first questioned 444 men and women — ranging in age from 17 to 52 — to come up with a list of 237 distinct reasons people have sex. They ranged from “It’s fun” which men ranked fourth and women ranked eighth to “I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease” which ranked on the bottom by women.
Once they came up with that long list, Meston and Buss asked 1,549 college students taking psychology classes to rank the reasons on a one-to-five scale on how they applied to their experiences.
“None of the gender differences are all that great,” Meston said. “Men were more likely to be opportunistic towards having sex, so if sex were there and available they would jump on it, somewhat more so than women. Women were more likely to have sex because they felt they needed to please their partner.”
But this is among college students, when Meston conceded “hormones run rampant.” She predicted huge differences when older groups of people are studied.
Since her study came out Tuesday, people are coming up with new reasons to have sex.
“Originally, I thought that we exhaustively compiled the list, but now I found that there should be some added,” Meston said.
